Adam West Quotes

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.

No one thought that the Disney Superpower had the ability to laugh at itself, but 'Enchanted' proved everyone wrong.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Everything can be satirized.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.